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David Lyon wrote: > Nothing beats an Internal binary format for processing speed. But it won't be an internal binary format. It will be an external binary format. > If you think about xml parsing, most of the time is spent searching for the > closing tag. If these things are known internally (how far to jump to skip to > the end tag) then processing time will obviously come down dramatically. No, not at all. You can't just skip to the end-tag. You have to check everything in between for well-formedness errors that may be there irrespective of whether the end-tag is correctly placed or not. > not to forget, xml is binary already. Everytime I do 'debug myfile.xml' I see > all these hex codes - oh and yes, the characters are shown on the far right > just in case. There's no rule at all that says XML has to be binary. A document painted on the side of a building or printed in a book is still a well-formed XML document. Binary computers are only about 60 years old. I expect to see non-binary computers based on qubits become a significant factor within my lifetime, possibly even replacing binary computers as effectively as binary replaced analog and decimal computers. Whether that happens or not, XML will continue to be well-defined; and data stored in textual XML will easily make the transition. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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